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No. 2007/02 | 01 Mar 2007 |
“Intelligent” Primary School Project in Italy
Construction work is about to begin on a new “intelligent” primary school for 300 students (later to be expanded for 600) in the Municipality of Solaro in the province of Milan. This is the fi rst primary school building in Italy designed according... |
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No. 1998/03 | 01 Feb 1998 |
World's 'Smartest' House Created by CU-Boulder Team
A former schoolhouse, more than 90 years old, is now what may be the world’s ‘smartest house’, a dwelling whose environment is controlled by a computer system that learns the occupant’s daily habits and preferences. |
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No. 2000/08 | 01 Jun 2000 |
Wired Versus Wireless
What follows is an edited transcript of an interview with Glenn Meeks and Prakash Nair by Randall Fielding, U.S. architect and planner, contributing editor to “School Construction News” and the editor of “Design Share”. |
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No. 2002/08 | 01 Jun 2002 |
Venezuela's Bolivarian Schools Project
The Bolivarian Schools Project is intended to respond to problems such as dropping out, educational exclusion, repetition, malnutrition, and loss of local, regional and national identity, and to the search for citizens interested in economic and... |
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No. 2007/10 | 01 Sept 2007 |
Using Minimum Energy in Ireland's Schools
This article explains how Ireland has incorporated low energy design into primary and post-primary schools and gives an overview of projects that have helped inform this approach. |
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No. 1998/02 | 01 Feb 1998 |
Use of School Grounds for Learning
This is the first time that the topic of school grounds has been selected for an OECD seminar in the Programme on Educational Building (PEB). Indeed, it is probably the first time that an international event has been wholly devoted to this important... |
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No. 2008/04 | 01 Feb 2008 |
US Academic Libraries
In 2007, the author examined existing academic libraries in the United States to determine best practices for the design, implementation and service of learning commons facilities. A primary objective of this study was to discover how to create a... |
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No. 2003/04 | 01 Feb 2003 |
Two Vocational Training Schools in Quebec
In Quebec (Canada), vocational training is delivered in special centres supported by the Ministry of Education. Here are two recent projects: a school of forestry and wood technology and a steelwork training centre. |
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No. 2000/03 | 01 Feb 2000 |
Turkey's Basic Education Programme
In August 1997, the Government of Turkey greatly increased its efforts to implement eight-year obligatory education, through parliamentary approval of Law No. 4306 for Basic Education. The law mobilises significant resources for a major investment in... |
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No. 2001/02 | 01 Feb 2001 |
Towards a Learning Society
LETA 2000 was one of Australia’s most significant networking activities in educational technology last year. Moreover it provided an important opportunity to showcase Australia’s as well as other countries’ achievements in the application of... |
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No. 2003/07 | 01 Jun 2003 |
The Urban Complex in Cattolica, Italy
The Italian city of Cattolica has developed an urban complex, the Piazza della Repubblica, providing a wide range of services to the public. In renovated facilities, the complex provides a modern and rational architectural setting based on the idea... |
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No. 2005/12 | 01 Oct 2005 |
The University of Salamanca's New Campus
The University of Salamanca in Spain has planned a new campus rooted in the local culture, geography, architecture and academic tradition. It will be built in the adjacent municipality of Villamayor, along the bank of the river Tormes. The master... |
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No. 1999/04 | 01 Feb 1999 |
The United Kingdom's School Asset Management Plans
Provisional Guidance on Asset Management Plans (AMPs) for schools was published by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) in August 1998. These plans will help English Local Education Authorities (LEAs) to identify, agree and address the... |
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No. 2004/10 | 01 Jun 2004 |
The United Kingdom's Part-Privately Funded Business Academy Bexley
The Business Academy Bexley is one of the first purpose-built, part-privately funded independent state schools in Europe. As part of the United Kingdoms new approach to raising educational standards in areas of social deprivation and low educational... |
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No. 2001/05 | 01 Jun 2001 |
The United Kingdom's Classrooms of the Future
Last year the UK Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) developed proposals for an initiative in school building design that became known as Classrooms of the Future. Its objective is to develop a number of pilot projects which explore... |
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No. 2000/13 | 01 Oct 2000 |
The Science Resource Area in the State-of-the-Art High School
It appears that science education is moving more and more toward individual and small-group, hands-on projects and away from the “sage on the stage” lecture and “one size fits all” laboratory projects. Many of the individual concepts elaborated in... |
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No. 2001/13 | 01 Oct 2001 |
The School of the Future
On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, PEB invited experts to debate the continuing need for educational buildings at a one-day seminar in June 2001 entitled “Temples of Learning or White Elephants? What Future for Educational Buildings?” The OECD... |
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No. 1999/12 | 01 Oct 1999 |
The School 2001 Project in Pendao, Portugal
This article is an extract from a presentation made by Isabel Mendinhos to the PEB Steering Committee in June 1999. The project she describes, School 2001, concerns a school for lower secondary education, School E.B. 2,3 Professor Galopin de Carvalho... |
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No. 2001/12 | 01 Oct 2001 |
The Relationship Between Capital Investment and Pupil Performance
The United Kingdom’s Department for Education and Skills commissioned a major study to examine the relationship between capital investment in schools and subsequent academic attainment. In particular, a key objective of the study was to establish, if... |
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No. 1998/08 | 01 Oct 1998 |
The Netherlands' Study House
As a result of feedback by employers and tertiary institutions, an innovative form of “learning architecture” is emerging in secondary schools in the Netherlands. Dutch curriculum authorities decided that an entirely new approach was required. In an... |
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“Intelligent” Primary School Project in Italy
Giorgio Ponti
01 Mar 2007
Construction work is about to begin on a new “intelligent” primary school for 300 students (later to be expanded for 600) in the Municipality of Solaro in the province of Milan. This is the fi rst primary school building in Italy designed according...
World's 'Smartest' House Created by CU-Boulder Team
OECD
01 Feb 1998
A former schoolhouse, more than 90 years old, is now what may be the world’s ‘smartest house’, a dwelling whose environment is controlled by a computer system that learns the occupant’s daily habits and preferences.
Wired Versus Wireless
Randall Fielding, Glenn Meeks and Prakash Nair
01 Jun 2000
What follows is an edited transcript of an interview with Glenn Meeks and Prakash Nair by Randall Fielding, U.S. architect and planner, contributing editor to “School Construction News” and the editor of “Design Share”.
Venezuela's Bolivarian Schools Project
María Magnolia Santamaría Diaz
01 Jun 2002
The Bolivarian Schools Project is intended to respond to problems such as dropping out, educational exclusion, repetition, malnutrition, and loss of local, regional and national identity, and to the search for citizens interested in economic and...
Using Minimum Energy in Ireland's Schools
John Dolan
01 Sept 2007
This article explains how Ireland has incorporated low energy design into primary and post-primary schools and gives an overview of projects that have helped inform this approach.
Use of School Grounds for Learning
OECD
01 Feb 1998
This is the first time that the topic of school grounds has been selected for an OECD seminar in the Programme on Educational Building (PEB). Indeed, it is probably the first time that an international event has been wholly devoted to this important...
US Academic Libraries
Susan McMullen
01 Feb 2008
In 2007, the author examined existing academic libraries in the United States to determine best practices for the design, implementation and service of learning commons facilities. A primary objective of this study was to discover how to create a...
Two Vocational Training Schools in Quebec
OECD
01 Feb 2003
In Quebec (Canada), vocational training is delivered in special centres supported by the Ministry of Education. Here are two recent projects: a school of forestry and wood technology and a steelwork training centre.
Turkey's Basic Education Programme
A. Remzi Sezgin
01 Feb 2000
In August 1997, the Government of Turkey greatly increased its efforts to implement eight-year obligatory education, through parliamentary approval of Law No. 4306 for Basic Education. The law mobilises significant resources for a major investment in...
Towards a Learning Society
Walter Koll, John Travers and Cecilia Wilson
01 Feb 2001
LETA 2000 was one of Australia’s most significant networking activities in educational technology last year. Moreover it provided an important opportunity to showcase Australia’s as well as other countries’ achievements in the application of...
The Urban Complex in Cattolica, Italy
OECD
01 Jun 2003
The Italian city of Cattolica has developed an urban complex, the Piazza della Repubblica, providing a wide range of services to the public. In renovated facilities, the complex provides a modern and rational architectural setting based on the idea...
The University of Salamanca's New Campus
Pablo Campos Calvo-Sotelo
01 Oct 2005
The University of Salamanca in Spain has planned a new campus rooted in the local culture, geography, architecture and academic tradition. It will be built in the adjacent municipality of Villamayor, along the bank of the river Tormes. The master...
The United Kingdom's School Asset Management Plans
Alan Jones
01 Feb 1999
Provisional Guidance on Asset Management Plans (AMPs) for schools was published by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) in August 1998. These plans will help English Local Education Authorities (LEAs) to identify, agree and address the...
The United Kingdom's Part-Privately Funded Business Academy Bexley
OECD
01 Jun 2004
The Business Academy Bexley is one of the first purpose-built, part-privately funded independent state schools in Europe. As part of the United Kingdoms new approach to raising educational standards in areas of social deprivation and low educational...
The United Kingdom's Classrooms of the Future
Chris Bissell
01 Jun 2001
Last year the UK Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) developed proposals for an initiative in school building design that became known as Classrooms of the Future. Its objective is to develop a number of pilot projects which explore...
The Science Resource Area in the State-of-the-Art High School
James T. Biehle
01 Oct 2000
It appears that science education is moving more and more toward individual and small-group, hands-on projects and away from the “sage on the stage” lecture and “one size fits all” laboratory projects. Many of the individual concepts elaborated in...
The School of the Future
David Istance
01 Oct 2001
On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, PEB invited experts to debate the continuing need for educational buildings at a one-day seminar in June 2001 entitled “Temples of Learning or White Elephants? What Future for Educational Buildings?” The OECD...
The School 2001 Project in Pendao, Portugal
Isabel Mendinhos
01 Oct 1999
This article is an extract from a presentation made by Isabel Mendinhos to the PEB Steering Committee in June 1999. The project she describes, School 2001, concerns a school for lower secondary education, School E.B. 2,3 Professor Galopin de Carvalho...
The Relationship Between Capital Investment and Pupil Performance
OECD
01 Oct 2001
The United Kingdom’s Department for Education and Skills commissioned a major study to examine the relationship between capital investment in schools and subsequent academic attainment. In particular, a key objective of the study was to establish, if...
The Netherlands' Study House
Kenn Fisher
01 Oct 1998
As a result of feedback by employers and tertiary institutions, an innovative form of “learning architecture” is emerging in secondary schools in the Netherlands. Dutch curriculum authorities decided that an entirely new approach was required. In an...